Wildlife Photography at Home: DSLR Camera Trapping

Red Fox at Night

Wildlife Photography at Home Introduction

Taking time to look at nature in your own garden is overlooked by many, instead choosing to go further a field to various nature reserves. It maybe surprising to some but if you take the time to look in your garden there is always something worth looking at. I have found many intresting and sometime surprising things in my very small garden within the comfines of a large city, which we will explore in this series of posts of "Wildlife Photography at Home".

DSLR Camera Trapping in the Garden

I haven't been posting much lately due to not finding time in between university work, plus other things that need my attendtion. I am finally graduating so I have had more time to do some project at home. One of these projects is doing a bit of DSLR Camera Trapping in my parents backyard. My dad reported that he had seen a funny coloured fox in the garden on his trail camera that I had got him. I had a look and it lookes like a Silver Fox, which was very surprising here in the UK. The Silver Fox is a melanistic variation of the Red Fox, but is mainly see in places like North America and mountainous regions, not flat Lincolnshire so this is something exciting.

Above: Photos captured on my DSLR Camera Trap

I set-up my cameras on the lawn where he has been seeing the foxes and hoped of capturing a rare Silver Fox. I then left and checked back in a few weeks to see what I had got. No Silver Fox but a nice regular Red Fox and a local cat or Urban Tiger. I will leave it out for another couple of weeks and see what I get.

Interested in doing this Yourself?

Interested in DSLR Camera Trapping:- Heres some tips

• A garden is a great place to begin to learn this technique before adverturing further a field (If your forget something or something goes wrong you haven't got far to go)

• Be patient - You will get that picture

• Read about what others have done

• Books available are EVERYTHING YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT PRO CAMERA TRAP By Emmanuel Rondeau v2.0, Camera Trap

  Photography Made Easy By Will Burrard-Lucas and WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY AT HOME By Richard Peters

• Check out my other posts on this technique

What Equipment do you need for a DSLR Camera Trap?

How to set up a DSLR Camera Trap in the Field.